2:59 AM,
Jun. 29, 2013

Written by

Deirdre Shesgreen
Gannett Washington Bureau

A deeply divided House Oversight Committee approved a resolution Friday declaring that Lois Lerner - the IRS official at the center of a firestorm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups - waived her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The move paves the way for the panel's GOP majority to force Lerner to reappear before the committee.

The resolution was approved on a partisan vote, 22-17, after a heated debate that oscillated between lofty constitutional questions and bitter partisan jabs. Lerner will almost certainly not comply with any effort by the ...